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...however, could not disguise the deepening impact of his campaign-especially for Democratic Nominee Jimmy Carter. McCarthy's name is now on the ballot in 30 states with a total of 356 electoral votes. National polls have placed his strength between 3% and 12%. TIME'S Yankelovich survey in early October gave McCarthy 7%, a significant figure in a close Ford-Carter finish. A Field survey made two weeks ago in California showed McCarthy winning 10% of the vote in that state on a write-in basis (he is not on the ballot...
Those are the chief conclusions of the second TIME Citizens' Panel conducted by the public-opinion research firm of Yankelovich, Skelly and White, Inc. Last month TIME published the results of the first survey, taken among 300 voters chosen at random from a national cross section of 1,500 people. To examine the changing-or unchanging -reactions to the campaign, Yankelovich went to 303 other voters between Oct. 8 and 10, after the second debate...
Aside from the slumping stock averages, the signals on the economy's health last week were mixed. On the bright side, the University of Michigan's quarterly Survey of Consumer Attitudes found a "very favorable" outlook for the kind of open-wallet spending needed to continue the recovery. For the first tune in three years, in fact, a majority of the families polled thought it was a favorable time to buy big-ticket household items like furniture, refrigerators and TV sets. Yet other key indicators suggested continued economic softness. In September, retail sales rose an almost imperceptible...
...some cases, chronically ill (the group that has top priority in the vaccination program), who had received shots. Yet during any single 24-hour period, there are some 16 deaths in this age bracket among every 100,000 Americans. The gist of the official argument was clear: a similar survey of deaths among the elderly who had, say, just drunk coffee might well have shown a higher mortality rate. Nonetheless, even doctors sympathetic to the flu program warned elderly people with heart or other chronic diseases to be wary of the stress and strain of getting shots at public clinics...
Clitoral stimulation is central to women's sexuality, says Hite. So she framed one question for her survey that most professional sex researchers have not asked: Do you regularly achieve orgasm during intercourse without separate massaging of the clitoris? Only 26% said...